Kennedy, John F.

*		1917
†		1963

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US-American politician

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	naval officer 1941-1945
	1947 democratic delegate in the House of Representatives
	1953-1961 Senate
	1960 elected as the 35th US President
	During Kennedy’s term of office occur the sharpening of the Berlin crisis, the construction of the Berlin wall; the failure of a CIA operation against Cuba (the Bay of Pigs disaster); reinforcement of the US military intervention in South Vietnam (1961); acceleration of the civil rights reforms in the US.
	1962 prevails against the USSR in the crisis over Soviet missiles in Cuba
	assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963